Comanche Archery HOW TO
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- How to do Comanche archery Learn in depth practice drills to begin training in this lost and almost forgotten method of Comanche war archery. Comanche archers were the only archers in history who could easily defeat firearms, but how did they do archery? Today Dave Mead tries to explain how Comanche archers practiced fast archery, and what he was taught by Lars Andersen - the world's Fastest Archer.
I was commissioned to make Comanche style bows and arrows for the master archer Lars Andersen at the beginning of 2020. Making the bows and arrows plus animal hide arrow quiver and bow case took many months, the entire project to date is almost 2 years in the making. During this time under the direction of Lars I began training in the warrior form of archery specific to the Comanche and Plains Indigenous people. This was the most eye opening and exciting experience I have had thus far in all my years of archery. Lars is a great teacher and truly wants to pay homage to the Comanche warriors unparalleled archery. Coined "The Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History" The amazing feats of Comanche archery were almost forgotten, we hope to bring it back and pass it along to all. I suggest anyone with an interest in being more intuitive and dynamic in archery to give this a try! We do not know if this is the original Comanche archery we have rediscovered but it fits descriptions and authentic equipment and works well on foot and horseback and can do everything described in historical sources
My website bows, arrows, nocks www.meadlongbows.com/about.html
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Lars Andersen website www.larsandersen23.com/
references:
Empire of the Summer Moon Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne
Joe Rogan video with S.C. Gwynne about Comanche and Lars • The Unparalleled Arche...
Letters And Notes on the manners, customs and conditions of the North American Indians: Written during eight years travel by George Catlin (1796-1872)
George Catlin's letters and notes of North American Indians
Encyclopedia of Native Americans Bows, Arrows and quivers by Jim Hamm
Bows and Arrows of the Native Americans: A complete step-by-step guide to wooden bows, sinew backed bows, composite bows, strings, arrows and quivers by Jim Hamm
Mr. Carney Saupitty Jr. and the Comanche National Museum and Cultural Center
Timecodes
0:00 intro with Comanche Archery action
0:07 announcing video purpose, next video and thanking everyone
0:43 first practice drill begins
1:05 demonstrating drill
1:30 closeup demonstrating drill
1:55 continued speaking about and demo drill
12:48 examples of how it is used in action
3:11 discussing next more advanced drill
4:45 showing advanced technique 4 arrows into air at once
5:05 demonstrating the drill with bow and arrows
5:45 showing pinch draw and demo 3 shots
6:18 again showing 3 shots slowly closeup
6:35 discussing how not to let ego control you
6:50 speaking about awareness
7:25 showing and discussing options of targets for training Comanche archery, how to set them up and use.
9:56 discussing longer range training and drawing back further
10:32 shooting at moving targets as taught by Lars Andersen
10:47 using left and right hand to shoot
11:31 pushing the bow as part of draw cycle and aiming
13:35 what gear can be used for this
13:48 bamboo horsebow
14:17 vintage recurve with shelf
15:11 solid fiberglass bow
15:51 size differences between bows
16:20 nocks, standard vs Comanche
17:00 how I make nocks
17:28 why certain design nocks are important to become efficient
20:25 discussing feather fletch on arrows
21:00 new Comanche nocks I designed for carbon and wooden arrow shafts
21:47 discussing what video to watch next to learn how I make bows and arrows like this.
22:37 Thank everyone for watching, mention part 2 and wish happy holidays
23:15 outtro
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Dave is the real deal! I have witnessed this first hand as well as had the opportunity to train with him several times both at his place in Kentucky as well as my place out in here California. He is an awesome bowyer, archer and instructor. Most may not know but Dave is a great Martial Artist as well and has mentored me on how to integrate my martial arts training with several styles of archery including the Comanche style.
Thank you my brother 👊 I am a better martial artist thanks to you teacher🙏
Recommend any books for this style and learning more about the Comanche?
Everybody is doing the Lars Andersen method now. That's what this is. He can get four arrows in the air before the first one hits the target and hit the target with each one. Lars is a legend.
I have long appreciated Lars for helping bringing back the true ancient styles of archery, but he hasn't given much instruction on how to do it. As someone who lives close to Comanche Peak, I really appreciate this video for learning the Comanche style that was well-known - and feared - in this part of Texas. Subscribed!
I don't live far from Comanche Peak myself! Small world!
My grandad is Comanche/Mexican. He always told me about this style which makes sense because he was a badass bow hunter as well as horse rider. Not to mention a Vietnam war vet. Hes the reason the warrior spirit lives on in me and my little bro. I showed him this video and he watched it several times already. I will pass this way down to my son and daughters. Thanks for your videos. They are awesome and Ive been practicing with my son
That’s awesome!
Excited for part 2
Bell is on now!
As a short man 20%pueblo genetics started in grade school with a lemon wood bow and snap shooting as you are doing I'm 67 now and still miss that little bow. Our school system way back taught archery English style they didn't like my snap shooting .
Time to get you another little bow
😂Her reaction to him shooting her pillow was so funny. I think it's 9 minutes in.
I'm so hyped for part 2!!
Holy smokes! This is one of the most eye opening videos I have ever seen. I wasn’t close to understanding the capabilities and lethality of Comanche warriors until I saw this segment. I can’t wait to get out and try to emulate their techniques.
Thanks for watching have fun!
Such a joy to perceive your's! Thank you!
Oh yeah! Nice to see you back!
AWESOME INFO..... legit to the core
Love watching these ancient styles. Keep making the content! Just starting out with archery and teaching the kids so these type of video are an eye opener
This archery video kicks ass! Well done, you are a natural communicator
I learned a lot with this video. Thanks
Nice to find this video. Im starting to learn this technique,is easier than i thought it would be,thanks
Amazing content! I look forward to watching future videos. Thank you, Dave!
Thank you!
Have watched many of Lars Anderson’s archery shooting, however found this much more informative and instructional, I’ll be sure to try this next time I’m out in the woods in Devon England thanks.
I 'm just starting archery , this video is very good, adds fun to shooting instead of the typical form of shooting I have been seen. Than-you I enjoyed it.
I've been shooting a cheap longbow for about a month. It's so fun. I've been wanting to try speed shooting.. This is the best tutorial i've found so far. I've got a turkish short bow & some open knocks on the way. Thanks man!
Thank you for sharing this technique! So simple and yet so fun and effective!
Good stuff!! Keep ‘em coming!!
Those people back in time where amazing. Hard training and dedication.
I've been a self-bowyer for many years, but am just getting I to short bows. Great video and thanks for the instruction and encouragement.
Great video sir. You’re very talented
Great tutorial. I'll start practicing. Subscribed.
Thank you! Have fun
I have been looking forward to this video since the first video on Comanche archery came out. Can’t wait to get started! Thanks Dave! I am sure I got a bow or two that will work for this style
Very welcome thanks for watching
You helped me a lot. Thanks.
Excellent video, very informative and VERY entertaining, thank you!
Thank you for watching glad you liked it!
Great! Thank you for sharing.🙏🏻
I'm excited for Part 2
This is very cool!!! I just got pumped at trying this style, thx for the video man!!!! Will build me a bow, hopefully comanche replica. Cya man!!
Great video, thanks 👍
FRIGGIN AWESOME!!!!
Great stuff Dave! Thanks for the detailed drills. Been shooting a plains bow and was not sure on the specific technique. The instinctual shooting style is a blast.
Thanks for watching glad you liked it
is part 2 coming? I would love to see that for sure, getting my first bow in a couple of weeks, it is a modern recurve tho, so these techniques will be more challenging for sure because of the size of the handles
After watching this... subbed! I've been looking for someone to better explain the fast shooting. Also keep up the good work man!! Seriously! I think I might try my hand at making a bow this summer.
Great content as always. I'll definitely try this style in the days to come
Thank you!
I'm not an archer but there's been a lot of breakins where I live. This looks awesome.
Loved this video!!
Thank you
Greatest video ever!
I was brought here by Lars Andersen. Great content, nice instruction. I appreciate it very much, look forward to seeing more content from you sir
Thank you very much
Great video brother. Authentically and historically accurate too.
Ok, within 1:50 my eyes are so much wider, I'd have never thought to do it like that. I'm gonna keep watching this.
Awesome video Brother! I can't say enough about it! Thank you for laying it out easy to understand and follow along! Makes me wanna pick up my bow and throw some arrows!
Go for it brother we will get together soon I promise and train
@@MeadLongbows I am excited for it! And need it. After winter we'll have to schedule a warrior weekend.
I have always full long drawn for 60 years but since an auto accident permanently injured my shoulder I can’t do it any more but I have a short horse bow I made 35 years ago that will allow me to start shooting with the short draw. Thank you for the alternative method I can use!
Excellent, Comanche Archery is next on my list to learn :) keep it up with your videos :)
thank you!
Can't wait for part 2, and also if you had a video for making the comanche bow specifically that would be awesome. Great work, great tutorial. This helped me a lot even with some principles in other styles of shooting. :)
Did part 2 ever show up?
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This is great thank you!!!
Lars! Is really cool and effective I draw back quiver over should and grab multiple arrows sometimes but this is really fast technique
This is good stuff...stuff I already am well aware of but for those who haven't been doing archery for 30 years this is one of the most informative instructional videos if not the most , so take it from an old hand in archery this guy's information is absolutely correct, accurate and super valuable if you are after learning a way of archery evolved for combat and killing other humans and being able to quickly take advantage of hard to reach food resources so that you may survive in practically any environment from desert to grasslands or forests and jungle or the fricken arctic circle. This is the good stuff folks . High praises and respect to you David great work
Thank you sir!🙏
Thanks for this Dave. It is very useful to me, not only on a new way to have some fun, but as a writer of westerns that often feature Comanches, it is fantastic research material for me. Looking forward to the next one.
You are welcome and that's awesome! Thanks for watching!
Books or movies? And names so I can look em up?
I like it. Thank you
Awesome video
Please do more of these, it is a niche audience but we can get this type of information from limited sources
Sweet video. It's really interesting seeing Native American Style Archery. Truely one of the best style of archery in history.
👊
Just found your channel! Good stuff. Started to make bow staves and thinkin Comanche is going to be the first one made. Learning flint knapping as well. Something tells me we may need to be proficient in the old ways sooner than later brother and sisters.
Thank you for the wealth of knowledge 🙏✌️♥️🌍🇺🇲
** I made this comment with about 4min left in the video. Great minds think alike i suppose 😂
Sheet man. So inspired by this. Thx for such a great explanation
You are welcome and thank you!
Sick vid thanks man
Don't hate on the fiberglass man, I've taken many deer and squirrel with my old ben pearson long bow lol. My great uncle gave it to me when I was 12. It's about 30-35lb @28" but it's my favorite one. But your kit looks hella cool!
very cool stuff
Thanks for your videos.just subscibed.i just bought a bow.and am interested in this type of archery. I hope your putting out more videos.for now i can watch the videos you put out
Great vid!!!! I'd like to see some more with the Ben P bow. For example holding, how many sit on shelf, etc. Thanks
“WHAT ARE YOU DOING?” Hysterical
Great video
Fred Walker owner of Kawartha Traditional Archery Center Ontario Canada, Excellent Dave (assume your name) interesting well put together. Love the natural approach and subject matter. Only wish I was a little younger 77 now. Trad with long bow and recurve is my background for many years. Always attracted to the North American Indian culture. Great to see promotion and deeper understanding and respect for this way. Thank you for this. Always looking for ways that are adaptable to modern approaches. Great job, Good for you. Please keep it up.
Fred thank you very much for your kind words and support. Keep shooting my friend, thanks for watching and stay safe👊
Cool video
This is a great presentation. I'm 85 and grew up in Comanche and Kiowa country, where many of us little boys were awed by cowboy skills and Comanche and Kiowa skills. I'm an archer and prefer the short Comanche bow.
Awesome thank you
I want... no I need the Comanche nocks :D
Really love the content thank you so much for all the great information. I recently made an atlatl I wondered if you mess with those at all? Keep the videos coming man love it
Thanks! Yes Ive made some in the past but cant really step away from how much more connected I am to the bow.
Dudes a beast shooting bow an arrows 😮😊
Im 77 years old and have been using that style of instinctive shooting for carp fishing all my life, because most of the time you don't have time to aim. Also, if the carp is moving, you cant shoot where the fish is or you'll miss or hit it in the tail. If the fish is moving you have to shoot where the fish is going to be! Same with any moving target! Shoot where it's going to be!
I like your video! Keep up the good work!
Dave this is a superb absolutely superb presentation and we will share it around. When we were little boys 5-8 years old and fashioning our own little stick bows from maple branches & boxwood arrows with hen feathers crudely tied on . . . . and no one to show us how to shoot, this same basic technique was what we did back then. This is most likely the most natural way as it gets, a few of us still do it but most got swayed into more formal archery techniques along the way. As you so succinctly point out, IT WORKS :) and is fun!
We are curious why you cut out the indoors scene video clip after your wife asked you “What are you doing???”
We would have loved to see you talk your way out of THAT one lol.
Thanks again for an awesome great job and by the way GREAT RUNNING SHOOTING!
Thank you very much! Yes this is very natural way and I also did pinch draw as a child then for some reason gravitated away from it. My wife was not too happy with my choice of target haha! But this is not the first time my weird hobbys have made her angry. And I would bet it wont be the last
I got in BIIIG trouble when the wife found a few holes in the couch and a pillow a while ago 😂. Thank you for sharing with us . I'm getting back into shooting . I haven't had a bow for 4 years.I'm waiting on my bow to get here in a few days. I got a little mongolian 50# kit to start out . I'm soooo excited
Great explanation 👌 it's almost like "instinctive" knife throwing.
The knock is a great idea. I’m hoping to attempt to make a short bow so now going to watch your vid on how to, fantastic content here in uk this sort of archery is hard to come by unless I’m not looking hard enough? Thank you for your knowledge.
You are very welcome, and thank you!
Have always picked my arrows by the nock it's so much easier to control and to put on string. I believe this was the way Howard Hill wanted people to handle the arrows by the nock.
I love watching your lesson videos. Very good.
Have you ever tried using knockless arrows? In place of the knock you wrap and glue a soft leather around the shaft with a short protrubance, maybe 3/8 of an inch, from the butt of the arrow. Taper the edge of the leather down onto the shaft for mechanical and aerodynamics. You could wrap that with sinew on the shaft section as well.
Thank you and yes I have I believe it's good to try all types of knocks
Dang this is more exciting than olympics archery contest.
*didn't know Keanu Reeves was an archer*
Good speed shoting video Bro.
Garage door foam pink insulation foam works great for me that and for now brightly-colored arrows and a black light for when I miss
Awesome video. Great explanation. I seen Lars Anderson once holding arrows in the bow hand like you showed. Believe it or not it was a quick part of the video that I froze and noticed how they went between the fingers.sooo, been shooting like this since I seen that video.and its fast! As you demonstrated. Something I did was change how I make my nocks. I flare them so they are wide, but tapered from top to bottom. So when you grab the nock it kind of automatically twists to the proper possition to place on the string.i use a 3 finger draw like eskimo style.if you were using a pinch type grip nocks like these wouldnt work for that. Theyd twist the wrong way to place on the string. I also decided on a hip quiver. I have plains style quivers/bowcases but I dont own a horse and to be honest a hip quiver would work on a horse if need be.anyhow it's always set perfect for grabbing 1 to 12 arrows as quickly as I need to. As for fletching I've always made a 2 fletch simular to what eskimo or catawba used. Theres no cock feather and no wrong way of nocking it on the string. This ads to speed with less fumbling. Looking forward to that second video.
thanks!
figured out drill #2 by myself and it worked quite well after some practice.
BUT: I ended up destroying the fletching of my arrows :)
AND: my max was three arrows in one hand.
Just started shooting Comanche style with three arrows in my bow hand and in a few weeks can get off four shots in 8 seconds. Need a traditional bow to be faster. Mine is a recurve but has an arrow rest that gets in the way when I reload. Awesome video.
they had the technique, if they had the old world gear it would be over
9:55 "It's time to go outside" lol i thought you were going to shoot at the chickens, lol.
Great videos and awesome tips, by far the most clear about how to knock the arrows and the drills.
Haha! Na the chickens are safe...for now.. Thanks for watching and support 👊
@@MeadLongbows Awesome video man, loved the super clear explanation of the arrow nocks and the "preloading" in the hand. The drills too, really informative and clear.
Fantastic instructions, fantastic instructor. Thank you very much Dave. Cannot wait for you to post Part 2 ;-)... when do you plan to shoot part 2, any idea? Will keep practicing basics in the meantime...
Thank you, hopefully soon
This is great when is part 2
Is Part 2 still in the works? Eager anticipation is killing me.
Merci and Danke
Wow you're intense with your draw advice 🙇♂️. The method you mentioned about not looking and moving slow is the same for drawing the sword and sheathing in iaido.
🙏
Best and most understandable instruction I have yet seen. Thanks. This may sound heretical (and it probably is) but can you shoot this style with a modern compound bow?
Thank you! and anything is possible
@Mead Longbows Love these videos, just got a camanche style bow yesterday, im curious, what length arrows do you use with it? anything special about them?
Asiatic horn bows like the Scythian bow were short and used from horseback. Arrows had nocks like that.
Freaking awesome .
21:06 Are there any of those except glue-on available, that overlap instead of insert? Do you make and sell those or something? I use bamboo and wood so I'm wondering if that type of nock is made for those kinds of arrows too that aren't hollow
Very impressive!
Love that bow. Dave if you don't mind could you tell me a little about that bow? Also if you could share a pic of the bow unbraced I would appreciate.
thx for watching, you can see how i made this bow and others in the first Comanche video
Something I've also found is that if you're using old $6 training arrows, you don't necessarily even need a nock if they've broken off. I can fire decently well this style in such scenarios, but of course it's not the desired option.
Cool stick quiver.
Amazing video. I have been so inspired by you and comanche style archery it's all I really practice. My only question is how do you prevent the arrow from tearing up your bow hand? The part of your bow hand that the arrow passes on. When I shoot this style the gap between my thumb and index on my bow hand gets torn up.
Thank you 🙏. Wrap the base of your fletches with fine sewing thread soaked in super glue. First use a razor to shave the tips of feathers down as much as possible like a smooth ramp that will not catch your skin